I heard about this today. it is the most rediculous crap! To many people are doing the politically correct thing and now it has resluted in removing swing sets? What has this world come to?? I live near Plano, but thank God at this time my son goes to a school with a swing set that all the kids enjoy!

I've lived in Japan. They have the best parks. I've always made the comment that if they had parks likes them in the States that a gang of lawyers would be hanging around passing out their cards. They have the best play ground equipment, and a lot less lawyers.

They need one of those good old Giant Strides, Maypole. We had one when I was a youngen and that thing had to have been designed by a plaintiff's attorney.

Tall metal pole with chains hanging down with a handle on the end. Hold on to the handle and everyone runs around until it's going fast enough to pick up your feet and fly around. The problem with this ride was the dismount - usually you got tired of hanging on and either 1. fell onto the gravel below or 2. hung on and drug your feet trying to get it to slow down while getting smacked in the head by recently vacated handles around you.

Plano is one wierd town. They have video cameras all over the place to watch you while you're out, the fire department doesn't do offensive firefighting unless someone is known to be trapped inside. The whole place reminds me of 1984.

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posted on 02/25/2005 9:00:35 PM PST
by Richard Kimball
(It was a joke. You know, humor. Like the funny kind. Only different.)

I went through plano once and show a sign at the filing station that stated that if a policeperson came up behind you and ordered you to stop and you turned around they had the right to shoot you. I have not been back as I am hard of hearing

You are correct. Chalk another one up to the trial lawyers. We lose as many, or more, freedoms because of the fear of trial lawyers as we do to their pals the Democrats. They work hand in glove, along with the labor unions, to destroy our freedoms and change our governemnt and our way of life.

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posted on 02/26/2005 11:32:15 AM PST
by Mind-numbed Robot
(Not all things that need to be done need to be done by the government.)

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